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The saints support, set out in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of…
The saints support, set out in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament. At a public fast, 29. June, 1642. By William Gouge.The saints support, set out in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament. At a publick fast, 29. Iune, 1642. By William Gouge.
London: printed by G. M. for Joshua Kirton, 1642
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That which he pleads of his own doing in this phrase (that I have done) is not to be taken in reference to his own ability in and of himself:1 but to the manifestation of the power of Gods Spirit in him,2 which God himself thus expresseth, Not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, and Saint Paul thus, I have laboured more abundantly then they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
That which he pleads of his owne doing in this phrase (that I have done) is not to be taken in reference to his owne ability in and of himself:1 but to the manifestation of the power of Gods Spirit in him,2 which God himselfe thus expresseth, Not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, and Saint Paul thus, I have laboured more abundantly then they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]〈non-Latin alphabet〉
- 2Zach. 4. 6. 1 Cor 15. 10.
For further amplification of what he did, he ads the persons in whose behalf he did all that he did, for this people. He means hereby the Jews, among whom he then was, and thereupon as pointing at them, he useth a double demonstrative particle, as if to the full it had bin thus expressed,